First Run Features PRESENTS GINSBERG, ORLOVSKY, CORSO, AND BURROUGHS IN ... THE BEAT HOTEL “A kEY PART OF BEAT HISTORY...twinklingly delivered.” - Nicolas Rapold, THE NEW YORK TIMES “VIVID. A real sense of the joyous energy of the time emerges, bristling with creativity.” - David Noh, FILM JOURnaL “THEIR EXTREME LIFESTYLES anD CREATIVITY ARE BRILLIanTLY CHRONICLED. This wonderful documentary allows us to dwell within the Beat Hotel for just a little while. The visit is a real treat.” - Jennifer Merin, ABOUT.COM “THE NEXT BEST THING TO BEING THERE. The hotel’s fading legacy is what makes this documentary so worthwhile. Anyone with an interest in the Beats will enjoy hearing the stories and seeing the hotel as it once was.” - Gary M. Kramer, GAY CITY NEWS 1957, Paris. A cheap no-name hotel becomes a haven for a new breed of artists struggling to free themselves from the conformity and censorship of America. Called the Beat Ho- tel, it soon became an epicenter of the Beat Generation. This revelatory new documentary delves deep into this amazing place and time. Fleeing the obscenity trials surrounding the publication of Howl, Allen Ginsberg, along with Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, happened “VIVIDLY PORTRAYS THESE FREEWHEELING upon the hotel in Paris’s Latin Quarter and were soon joined by William Burroughs, Ian Somerville and Brion Gy- YEARS OF SEX, DRUGS, anD POETRY sin. Run by Madame Rachou, the Beat Hotel was a hotbed of creativity and restores to cultural history this neglected and permissiveness, where Burroughs finished Naked Lunch; Ginsberg yet highly original phase in Beat Generation art.” and Corso wrote some of their greatest poetry; Somerville and Gysin - Sue Dougherty, REALITY SanDWICH invented the Dream Machine; and Harold Norse wrote a novella, aptly called The Beat Hotel. “EXQUISITE...might just be the best British photographer Harold Chapman’s iconic photos and Scottish artist Elliot Rudie’s drawings, interwoven with firsthand accounts, documentary on the Beat generation.” capture the Beats just as they were beginning to establish them- - Louis Proyect, THE UnREPENTanT MaRXIST selves, and bring THE BEAT HOTEL to life. BONUS MaTERIALS include: 2012 SRP: $27.95 • Short Film: Harold Chapman on His Photography Canada: $29.95 THEATRICAL Catalog #: FRF 915182D • Short Film: The Dream Machine • Elliot Rudie Drawings 82 minutes, color, 2011 • Deleted Scene: William S. Burroughs & Ian Sommerville RELEASE Pre-book: JUNE 19 • Street Date: JULY 17 TO ORDER CALL 1-800-229-8575 OR CONTACT YOUR DISTRIBUTOR Email: [email protected].